The Population Of The United States

In Josh Barro’s article, he mainly discusses the theme of Social Security. He explains how if we raise the age for people to access Social Security, that will harm poorer Americans who have a lower life expectancy due to the type of work they do or because of lack of other proper benefits. In the video, Coming of Age in and Aging America, they discuss the main theme of aging in America and the difficulties and obstacles these individuals face on a daily basis, especially in terms of Social Security. The video covers a variety of situations that the elderly face and how America can work to make the lives easier especially in a world where our elderly population in growing. One example was in a hospital where they were able to integrate new techniques and systems to make it easier for people to work longer into their lives. The main themes of Sharon Kaufman’s journal article were health care and the reform of current plans, and discussion of life-prolonging procedures. She discusses the three main procedures used in the U.S. which are organ transplantation, cardiac procedures, and cancer treatments. Finally, Segal’s text covers the themes and policies related to aging and elderly population. She discusses the acts and programs that have been put into place such as the Older Americans Act of 1965, social security, pensions, and Medicare/Medicaid, along with a variety of others.

1.) What difficulties—from retiring baby boomers in the United States to a graying China, to the massive overhang of Europe’s elderly—can private corporations, governments, and other sectors expect as the aging revolution unfolds across the globe? How will changing demographics affect workforce composition? Retirement age? Pension outlays? Taxation? Immigration? Economic growth? How can governments, corporations, and nongovernmental organizations work together to address these issues?

In general, countries experiencing high fertility and rapid population growth, have a “young” population structure and the important policy considerations are if there are enough schools and, sufficient jobs and housing to accommodate this population. Countries with “old” population structures face the problems of structuring and developing retirement and health systems to serve this older population and also they have a considerable reduction the number of the working force. The decline of the work force is one of the most dramatic economic tendencies of the past four decades in the United States. The individual’s decision of whether to stay in the workforce or to retire is based on the collaboration of a number of factors including the following: eligibility for Social Security benefits, availability of and benefits under an employer-financed pension plan, work

Medicare is not the only benefit seniors receive from their government. Taxes can be greatly affected by age. For instance, many elderly receive tax breaks and extensions based on their social security benefits as well as reductions and tax-cuts on certain holdings and investments. So with Roth IRAs, 401k the elderly is only taxed upon withdrawal. Discounts are available everywhere for the elderly from restaurants to cruise ships. Normally, with higher prices bring bigger discounts. Ageing workers are more skilled, knowledgeable, and more proficient than their younger counterparts. Often times it can be said that the “older people” are more intelligent, practical, intuitive, extremely flexible and very strategic in their work ethic, planning and can be considered “intelligent” in life’s well learned lessons that come with age and wisdom. Being positive and using an example in this way between aging and greater wisdom, one tends to have a greater degree of patience, greater understanding and wisdom that parallels life’s pathway. “Many elders in foreign countries are considered to be esteemed and held in high regard,” (Applebaum, Bardo, Robbins (2103). Some studies show that interests, motivation and skill does not decline with age, nor does a person’s work performance suffer due to aging. Aging workers also receive higher salaries due to their tenure. Finally, there is no data to show that older workers cost more to insure than younger

The rapid growth in the number of seniors in America and around the world is creating a global demographic revolution without precedent. During this century, advances in hygiene and water supply and control of infectious diseases have reduced the risk of premature death much. As a result, the proportion of population over 60 years in the world is growing faster than in any previous era. In 1950 there were approximately 200 million people aged over 60 worldwide. By 2000 there will be over 550 million, and by 2025, the number of people over 60 is expected to reach 1,200 million.

According to the recent studies the older people as compared to the youth are becoming more economically and demographically attractive. However, there are costs of an aging population that the society bears as a whole. (Andrews, 2009)

First of all, older people consume a larger proportion of public services. For example, they require more health and social

There is no doubt that the ageing population is a subject which has attracted much attention of Governments and communities in the world. Even in Australia, it is considered as one of the most crucial challenges which will have to confront in the next 25 years ( Hugo, 2014). Population ageing is defined as a change in the age structure of a country toward older ages. This is the repercussion of many elements such as the declining fertility rate, baby boom period and advanced technology in medical and healthcare extending longevity.While a number of studies have been done into proving this trend having several negative effects, it can be argued that there are many beneficial impacts both on national economy and society. This essay aims to look at the positive influences of older population on the workforce, then the Australian Government Budget, and finally the community.

Nevertheless, The large growth of grandparents provides a great encouragement for education and training of the new civilization. Now a days, ageing population is usually seen as a problem. However, most of the people reach old age relatively well. This essay aims to argue how the elderly in Australian society contribute to sustainable and healthy communities, and will also show how it is a positive phenomenon. Elderly population are valuable to society in general and especially for the young generation.

This line chart illustrates the percentage of citizens who are older than 65 years old from 1940 to 2040 in Japan, Sweden and USA re?nospectively. Overall, the trends of the proportion of the elderly in these countries all increase, and the percentages are expected to be appmximately(?) 29% in 2040.

The effect of global population is caused by 1. the lack of space to live, 2. water to drink, 3. the way food being process in America, 4. changing of temperature, and 5.we need to move to another planet. Global population is caused by the influx of people immigrating to the America since people believe that America is the land of opportunities. As the result, in America we have scarce resources such as food and water. The next step we need to to do is moving to the next closest planet, Mars. Although Mars do not have life at all we are aware that the little red planet contains water. The issue about moving to Mars is due to the atmosphere of Mars being heavily toxic to breath on . According Universe Today, “Mar’s surface is a dry, barren wasteland marked by old volcanoes and impact

Government expenditure of welfare and social services are reduced and sustains civil society with lower rates of crime. On the other hand, [Advantage]as life-expectancy of an individual or the high dependency ratio increases, drastic issues are introduced for governmental programs of health, social and economic services. Minority of the youth population are capable to employ in work due to the excessive amount of elder individuals employed. [Disadvantage]Furthermore, the ratio of the seniors to youth and fiscal gap escalates, where Government expenditure is disbursed on several sectors.[Disadvantage] Diverse strategies are performed in order to maintain the ageing population in Australia and Japan.[Thesis statement]The strategies that are explored by the Australian and Japanese Government include social security, social barriers and sustainability of existing facilities to require the developing needs of elder individuals.[Outline]

The increase in life expectancy is partially to blame for the increase in elderly citizens, as there are now better medicines and medical procedures to cure ailments which could have easily killed a person 10 or 20 years ago. As Levine said, "There are more elderly and a larger proportion of elderly in the population now than ever before in the history of the world, and individuals live longer and have a longer span of healthy, vigorous life than ever before" . We have to prepare, not only to have more aged people in the work force, but also to have adequate pensions and supplements to aid these people when they do retire.

The aging population is indeed a trend that is important to the planning, financing, and delivery of healthcare today. The aging population is on the rise so they will demand more care from the younger generation to deliver the proper care when it comes to healthcare. There are 31.86 million people over the age of 65 who live in Japan ( KYODO ). Leaving the remaining number to be among the younger generation is almost forced to have to attend to the aging population because if they do not look after them who will?

Current outlook for Japan and the major countries of continental Europe shows the aging trend is escalating and public retirement systems are generous. A small portion is contented, while others seek to more prosperity moving into retirement. According to The Organisation for Economic